Jaap van der Meer Jaap van der Meer founded TAUS in 2004. He is a language industry pioneer and visionary, who started his first translation company, INK, in The Netherlands in 1980. Jaap is a regular speaker at conferences and author of many articles about technologies, translation and globalization trends.
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Language Data
Datafication of Translation
by Jaap van der Meer 8 Sep 2016
Data entered the field of machine translation in the late eighties and early nineties when ..
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Food for Thought
A To-Do List for the Translation Industry
by Jaap van der Meer 14 Jul 2016
It was Renato (Beninatto) who reminded me, in the ‘Future’ panel discussion in Dublin, that only ..
TAUS Executive Forum Beijing 2016
Events
Innovation, Made in China
by Jaap van der Meer 4 May 2016
The question is: are we all on the same evolutionary path? Or do some of us take different turns, ..
Food for Thought
The Future Does Not Need Translators*
by Jaap van der Meer 24 Feb 2016
* The title is borrowed from an article written by Bill Joy (then Chief Scientist at Sun ..
Translation Evolution Timetable
Food for Thought
The Game Changers of 2016
by Jaap van der Meer 30 Nov 2015
The world can be overwhelming, so it’s tempting to try to make it smaller, more controllable. It’s ..
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Food for Thought
No Government, No Innovation
by Jaap van der Meer 6 Jul 2015
The translation industry is quickly becoming a high-tech industry. So we say… But fear not. ..
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Food for Thought
The Brains but not the Guts: Why American companies crack the language barrier and Europe fails
by Jaap van der Meer 18 Feb 2015
After decades of funding of European research in language and translation technology, the new ..